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Aldebaran

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an example of a red supergiant

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Alpha Centauri

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the closest star system to Earth, made up of three stars

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Asteroid Belt

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separates rock planets from gas planets

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Average Star Size

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less than four times the size of the Sun

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Betelgeuse

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a highly unstable red supergiant approximately 600 light years away

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Big Bang Theory

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the theory that the universe expanded from a single point in space

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Big Crunch Theory

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the theory that the universe will expand until it reaches at certain point, and the reduce back into nothing, and at the point of nothingness, a new Big Bang will happen

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Big Yawn Theory

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theory that universe will keep expanding forever

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Black Dwarf

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when a star cools and eventually becomes a black mass that emits no light, so it will spend the rest of eternity drifting through space

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Blackhole

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a stage of star death after supernova, leaving behind a huge mass with so much gravity even light is prevented from leaving it, and can suck in nearby stars and solar systems

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Blue Giant

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a phase in the life cycle of a massive star, where a star burns so hot it becomes blue

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CMBR

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Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation

the energy left over after the Big Bang, furhter evidence for the Big Bang

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Doppler Effect

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where the wavelength of a sound changes as something moves, making the sound high pitched as it comes towards you and low pitched as it moves away

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Dwarf Planets

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planets too small to be classed as proper planets

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Pluto

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beyond Neptune, used to be classed as a planet until more accurate measurements were done, the biggest dwarf planet

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Ceres

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dwarf planet just beyond Mars, may sustain life

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Eris

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second-largest dwarf planet after Pluto

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Makemake

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dwarf planet roughly sixty percent the size of Pluto

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Galaxy

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group of stars

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GEO

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a manmade satellite that orbits the Earth in 1 day

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Goldilocks Zone

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area in a solar system where conditions are perfect to support life

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Gravity

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forces that keep everything in place in the solar system

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HST

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a manmade satellite that orbits the Earth in 97 minutes

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Lageos

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a manmade satellite that orbits the Earth in 3.8 hours

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Main Sequence Star

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stars such as the Sun, which last for approximately 10000000000 years, our sun is about halfway through

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Massive Star

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a star more than four times the size of the Sun

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Multiverse

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the theory that there are multiple universes

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Nebulae

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clouds of dust and gas

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Neutron Star

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a celestial object formed mainly of very high density neutrons, the fate of most smaller massive stars

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Oscillating Universe Theory

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the theory that our universe was created by another universe ending

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Planet

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things that orbit stars, with satellites orbitting them

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Mercury

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the smallest and hottest planet

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Venus

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second planet, named after the Roman goddess of love, covered in poisonous gas

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Earth

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third planet, only one known to support life

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Mars

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fourth planet, used to have water, has mountains, may sustain life, has lots of iron

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Jupiter

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fifth planet, biggest planet, has a red storm that has been raging for over 300 years

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Saturn

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sixth planet, famous for rings

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Uranus

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seventh planet, also has rings

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Neptune

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the last and coldest planet

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Planetary Nebula

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an expanding shell of gas around a red giant that makes it form a white dwarf

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Protostar

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huge clouds of hydrogen gas in which stars are made, many thousands of times bigger than our solar system, as the clouds collapse stars are born in them

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Red Dwarf

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a very low mass main sequence star

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Red Giant

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as the sun runs out of hydrogen the outer layers of the sun become cooler and they expand massively, when this happens to the sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars will be swallowed up

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Red Ring

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where outer layers of a supernova rebound off the core in a shockwave

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Red Shift

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where light from other galaxies has a longer wavelength than expected, showing that galaxies are moving away very quickly, indicating that the further the galaxy is, the faster iti s moving, proving that the universe is expanding and has been since approximately 13.6 billion years ago

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Red Supergiant

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one of the stages of death that only affects stars more than four times larger than the Sun

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Satellite

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something that orbits a planet

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Solarsystem

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a star and its orbitting planets

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Stellar Nebula

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clouds of dust and gas in space that form stars

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Supernova

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the largest and most powerful explosions in the universe, where red supergiants literally blow themselves apart, all atoms are originally made from supernova explosions

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White Dwarf

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gravity causes the red giant to collapse into a small white star with a raidus of 5000 to 6000 km but still has the same mass as the sun

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Wormhole

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theory that there are holes in space that can transport things to other places in space

Physics GCSE (13 decks)

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